BY LOIS WADSWORTH
Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire)
in a pensive moment.
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t all depends on how you look at it.
The story of Seabiscuit, the abused and
nearly worthless, 15-hands high, ordi-
nary but thoroughbred racehorse that could
and did beat the reigning Triple Crown win-
ner of his day is a terrific tale. As written by
Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, the non-fic-
tion book, has spent most of the last few
years on The New York Times best-seller list,
first in hardcover for 30 weeks and in paper-
back for another 60 or so. Now Seabiscuit,
the film, is set to be rolled out over time in a
marketing plan with its eyes on the big prize,
the Academy Awards.
... no guns, no violence, no sex
— Seabiscuit is a real winner.
Critics are divided. Nearly all agree the
movie is true to Hillenbrand’s book, which
means true to the facts, but with allowance
for film conventions such as compound
characters, compressed time, brevity (from
a 400 page book to a 129 minute film), and
some fictionalization. The negative voices
say that writer and director Gary Ross
(Pleasantville) carried his respect for
Hillenbrand’s work too far, by incorporat-
ing historian and writer David
McCullough’s public broadcasting, voice-
of-truth narration to set the context of the
Great Depression.
However, the film’s visual elements
intensify the words spoken through cine-
matography, production design, costumes
and a careful reconstruction of horse races
run 70 years ago. That said, it is a little dis-
concerting in the early minutes of a main-
stream, feature film to find such homage to
the historical past through newsreels and still
photography. But most people at the sold-
out, first-show audience applauded, and
many stayed during final credits, I think,
because they weren’t eager to leave the
upbeat, overcoming-odds ambiance.
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because it’s escapist, but because it shows
the real effort involved in coming from
behind. Not because it’s sentimental, but
because it’s a true story. Not because it’s
about perfect people, but because it’s about
a gifted animal and the three broken men
who came together to lead him where he
was born to go — to victory as a racehorse.
Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), Tom
Smith (Chris Cooper) and Red Pollard
(Tobey Maguire) were lucky to find each
other at such a time. And they knew it.
Howard had made a fortune by seeing the
future of the automobile. But he lost his
family. Smith was an outsider who lost his
occupation but found promise in a horse
who was also out of step with his time. And
Pollard, abandoned by his family at an early
age, become a hard-drinking, hard-fighting,
itinerant jockey in the brutal fringe world of
racing. He recognized himself in Seabiscuit,
and the animal understood and trusted that.
An unusual story for a big-budget movie
— no guns, no violence, no sex — Seabiscuit
is a real winner. I’d bet on it. Highest recom-
mendations. Now playing at Cinema World
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Hillenbrand emphasizes in the book that
poor people offset the suffering and degrada-
tion of the Depression era through a number
of distractions, such as the first truly mass-
market medium of radio; the popularity of
horse-racing as entertainment; betting as a
big-time money game based on hope; the
endless pleasures of 1930s Hollywood musi-
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realism of Movietone newsreels and
wirephoto services as a result of improve-
ment in photographic equipment.
Many today find themselves in uneasily
similar circumstances to a Great Depression
audience — facing high unemployment,
hunger, fewer high-paying job opportunities,
cuts in education, human services and med-
ical care; as well as an economy that seems
to serve only the already-wealthy minority.
(And that’s leaving out our current military
and political dilemma that’s all too familiar
and morally wrong on every level.)
But ordinary people love this movie, not
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From nowhere to somewhere.
SEABISCUIT: Written and directed by Gary Ross, based on the
book by Laura Hillenbrand. Produced by Kathleen Kennedy,
Frank Marshall, Gary Ross, Jane Sindell. Executive producers,
Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Tobey Maguire, Allison Thomas,
Robin Bissell. Cinematography, John Schwartzman. Production
design, Jeannine Oppewall. Editor, William Goldenberg.
Costumes, Judianna Makovsky. Music, Randy Newman. Race
design, Chris McCarron. Head Wrangler, Rusty Hendrickson.
Starring Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, with
Elizabeth Banks, Gary Stevens and William H. Macy. Narrator,
David McCullough. Universal, DreamWorks, Spyglass, 2003. PG-
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